On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Norbert Melzer wrote:
Since gitorious got acquired by gitlab it will shut down its service end of May 2015 (https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/).
Where will ConTeXts source mirror be hosted then?
Will it get transfered over to gitlab? Github? Bitbucket? Sourceforge? Somewhere else?
First: we need a reliable repository We have a collection of ConTeXt releases that I need to convert into a git repository (there was a discontinuity back in October that I need to fix, so that we'll have a complete history). If someone is willing to spend a few hours fixing/completing the script that will turn the zips into git commits, let me know and I'll send you my half-finished work. Second: there are a bunch of (outdated) mirrors that will be brought up to date again once the first step is complete - There is a mirror on GitHub (https://github.com/contextgarden/context) - There is a mirror on contextgarden (http://git.contextgarden.net/context/context) - I conveniently locked myself out when creating a new username (context) on GitLab by making a typo when entering the email address and I'm not sure where and how to ask for help. Maybe the request for username expires after a while if nobody confirms it? Or I could hypothetically create that "email with a typo" and resend the confirmation email, then disable the email account again. If someone can point me out the place where I could ask for unlocking the "context" account, I would be grateful. I might just as well try luck on the generic email address. - I'm not a particular fan of sourceforge. I see no reason to host a mirror there. Their user interface is simply horrible. They got a bit better over time, but ... - BitBucket used to be hg-only. I see no reason not to have a mirror there as well (but I don't see any particular need for yet another mirror either). If there are enough people who think that having yet another mirror on BitBucket as well would be useful for whatever reason, let me know. (I don't know how GitLab works now and whether they fixed that annoying bug, but we had some serious issues with the Unicorn server behind it. Cloning the repository was often stuck/broken for no good reason, just because the server thought that cloning was supposed to be done in under 30 seconds, else it broke the connection as "stale". Maybe they'll have to fix it now if all those giant projects like Qt switch to their service.) Mojca